Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit
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Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit
This course is part of Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
Instructor: Dr Richard J Pinder
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Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives
Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes
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There are 4 modules in this course
The Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Toolkit builds on public health thinking (introduced in the previous course) and introduces a variety of core public health approaches (the toolkit) to conceptualising problems, conducting analysis and bringing forward recommendations. In this course we cover health needs assessment, evaluation and public health intelligence-approaches.
One of the core tools of public health practice is health needs assessment. In this module, you will learn how need is defined, and three key types of needs assessment: health needs assessment, health and wellbeing needs assessment, and healthcare needs assessment.
What's included
11 videos10 readings4 assignments1 app item5 discussion prompts3 plugins
11 videos•Total 43 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Richard Pinder•3 minutes
- Meet the Team (Optional): Samantha Alvarez Madrazo•4 minutes
- Introductory video and welcome•2 minutes
- Bradshaw's taxonomy of need•5 minutes
- What is health needs assessment?•6 minutes
- Who uses health needs assessment?•4 minutes
- Example 1: A local health and wellbeing needs assessment•6 minutes
- Example 2: A national healthcare needs assessment•5 minutes
- Conclusion•1 minute
- Introducing health impact assessment•3 minutes
- Introducing Health Equity Audit•3 minutes
10 readings•Total 82 minutes
- About Imperial College London & the FPHP Team•5 minutes
- How to be successful in this course•5 minutes
- Grading policy•5 minutes
- Glossary•5 minutes
- Examples of local and national HNAs•15 minutes
- Examples of best practice in health needs assessment•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Examples of health impact assessment•20 minutes
- E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment•10 minutes
- Scoping in health impact assessment•2 minutes
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment•5 minutes
4 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment•10 minutes
- Classifying need using Bradshaw's taxonomy•20 minutes
- Health Needs Assessment•20 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
- Health Needs Assessment•60 minutes
5 discussion prompts•Total 50 minutes
- Nice to meet you!•10 minutes
- So what do we mean by need?•10 minutes
- Developing your own health needs assessment•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Scoping in health impact assessment•10 minutes
3 plugins•Total 40 minutes
- E-tivity: Examples of need•15 minutes
- E-tivity: Examples health needs assessment•15 minutes
- E-tivity: Guided analysis of a health impact assessment•10 minutes
In this module, you will learn about the field of public health intelligence: what it is, how it works and why it underpins almost everything that we do in public health practice. You'll hear about the public health intelligence cycle, and tools that we use to identify and contextualise data.
What's included
6 videos3 readings3 assignments2 app items1 discussion prompt4 plugins
6 videos•Total 30 minutes
- The public health intelligence cycle•7 minutes
- Routinely collected data and metadata•7 minutes
- Non-routinely collected data (surveys and validated instruments)•5 minutes
- Non-routinely collected data (bespoke survey design and governance)•4 minutes
- Practitioner interview: Delivering a health needs assessment•6 minutes
- Conclusion•2 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Open access data repositories (PHE Fingertips)•15 minutes
- Open access data repositories (Gapminder and GHDx)•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions•5 minutes
3 assignments•Total 45 minutes
- Prioritising health needs and interventions•10 minutes
- Classifying data, information and intelligence•15 minutes
- Pros and cons of routinely and non-routinely collected data•20 minutes
2 app items•Total 25 minutes
- Classifying data, information and intelligence•10 minutes
- Quiz: Routinely and non-routinely collected data•15 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions•10 minutes
4 plugins•Total 35 minutes
- Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hun•15 minutes
- Routinely Collected Data Treasure Hunt•15 minutes
- E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and intervention•3 minutes
- E-tivity: Prioritising health needs and interventions•2 minutes
What is evaluation in public health? This module will introduce you to several key types of evaluation in public health, including outcome evaluation, process evaluation, and formative evaluation. You will also learn how quality is measured in health care. At the end of the module, you will have the opportunity to undertake your own evaluation, in the form of a logframe matrix.
What's included
8 videos1 reading2 assignments1 peer review2 app items1 plugin
8 videos•Total 40 minutes
- Introducing evaluation in public health•6 minutes
- Types of evaluation: Outcome evaluation•4 minutes
- Types of evaluation: Process and formative evaluation•5 minutes
- Measuring quality in health care•5 minutes
- The Donabedian approach to evaluation•6 minutes
- The Logical Framework approach (the Logframe)•6 minutes
- Practitioner interview: Evaluation in practice•7 minutes
- Conclusion•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Using indicators in performance monitoring and management•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
- Indicators of quality and performance•20 minutes
- Classifying indicators using Donabedian•20 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Designing your own evaluation•60 minutes
2 app items•Total 20 minutes
- Indicators of quality and performance•10 minutes
- Classifying indicators using Donabedian•10 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
- Did it work?•15 minutes
In the final module of this course, you will learn about analysis in public health. Analysis is essentially breaking something down so it can be more easily understood, and in this module, you will learn different techniques for doing this. You will also learn about intelligence briefings, and will end the module by writing your own intelligence briefing.
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review4 discussion prompts
4 videos•Total 18 minutes
- Getting started in analysis•5 minutes
- Getting started in analysis (Double Diamond Method)•5 minutes
- Practitioner Interview: Briefings in practice•5 minutes
- Conclusion•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- E-tivity: Public health analysis•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Public health analysis•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Briefing on dementia health care needs in Tokyo, Japan•60 minutes
4 discussion prompts•Total 40 minutes
- E-tivity: Public health analysis•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Public health analysis•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Public health analysis•10 minutes
- E-tivity: Public health analysis•10 minutes
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Reviewed on May 20, 2020
This is a great course with clear explanation and understanding of the essential toolkit require to analyse through the public health's perspective !
Reviewed on Jun 16, 2020
Very good. Would like to see more explanation of the finer details of each segment.
Reviewed on Jan 22, 2021
A really good grounding in the analysis and evaluation. The final assignment is a really good capstone activity to bring the ideas together.
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